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Besides that, they also managed to include supporting characters and cameos who stole the scene. It doesn’t try to become a docu-drama, in fact, the inclusion of the little army-taxi-rescue and chase (not sure if it really happened) heightened the tension between the cruel dictator Mr. The director brings the audience on a journey to revisit the events of the Gwangju Uprising through the eyes of the award-winning reporter and his driver. The welcoming moments from the student protestors brought tears to my eyes the same way when I was offered a burger by a group of volunteers when I was queuing to pay my last respect to our founding father Mr. There were plenty of surprises as the audience get to view through Peter’s lenses. I enjoyed watching how the reporter had to communicate with the seemingly money minded taxi driver, and slowly developed comradeship during the short span of time. His initial motive to enter Gwangju was more “for the news” than for the people. When Song Kang-ho said his line, “I left my passenger behind.”, the emotions evoked was strong and intense.īaron Von Strucker (Thomas Kretschmann | The Avengers: Age of Ultron) turned into German reporter Jürgen Hinzpeter, wasn’t the champion of justice I thought him to be either. But in the end, it was a normal man with the same amount of instinctual fear as anyone with the right amount of common sense would have, showing an extraordinary sense of resolve to complete what he commit to. I was expecting a heroic protagonist who brings the German reporter through the ‘battlefield’ and back, dramatic and herculean like the characters in The Battleship Island. I was surprised how ‘unlikeable’ Kim Man-seob was. He is an everyday citizen who is stingy, imperfect and totally relatable. Similar to ‘ The Wailing‘, the protagonist is an antihero.
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Set in 1980, the movie focused on the perspective of a widowed taxi driver Kim Man-seob. The more I researched on the backstory of A Taxi Driver Korean Movie, the more emotional and touched I felt. This is one of those films where I would hope to have as many people watch it as possible. I didn’t really know where to start for this review. A Taxi Driver Korean Movie (택시운전사) Viewer Rating: 4.5/5 **** A Taxi Driver Korean Movie (택시운전사) Review:
As time passes the situation grows more and more serious, and Man-seob keeps thinking of his young daughter at home all alone.
But Peter ignores him, and with the help of a university student Jae-sik (RYU Jun-yeol) and a Gwangju taxi driver named Tae-sul (YOO Hai-jin), begins shooting with his news camera. Man-seob, alarmed by the danger in the air, pleads with Peter to go quickly back to Seoul. There they encounter students and ordinary citizens taking part in large-scale demonstrations against the government. Without stopping to ask the details, he picks up the German reporter Peter (Thomas Kretschmann) and sets off along the highway.Īlthough stopped by police roadblocks at the edge of Gwangju, Man-seob is desperate to earn his taxi fare, and eventually manages to find a way into the city. If he drives a foreign passenger from Seoul down to Gwangju and back again before the curfew, he’ll be paid the unthinkable sum of 100,000 won – enough to cover several months of unpaid rent. A Seoul taxi driver named Man-seob (SONG Kang-ho) comes across an offer too good to be true.
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